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PARTNER EVENT: BlackStar Film Festival

Shorts Program 5

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Presented by Spike Lee, See You Yesterday tells the story of two Brooklyn teenage science prodigies who build a time machine to stop one’s brother from being wrongfully killed by the police.

They Charge for the Sun

SHORT NARRATIVE

United States, 2016, 17 min.

Philadelphia Premiere

Dir. Terence Nance

In a dystopian future where people live nocturnally to avoid the harmful rays of the sun, a young black girl unravels the lie that has kept her and her sister in the dark.

To Be Free

SHORT NARRATIVE

United States, 2017, 12 min.

Northeast US Premiere

Dir. Adepero Oduye

In a tiny after-hours club, Nina Simone finds a way, for one moment, to be free.

Walk for Me

SHORT NARRATIVE

United States, 2016, 12 min.

Dir. Elegance Bratton

Walk for Me is a contemporary coming-out story set in present-day New York City. Hassan Kendricks is a conflicted teenager, torn between his devotion to his single mother and his desire to be himself. When his mother, Andrea, finds women’s underwear and a flyer to a gay ball in her son’s bedroom, she decides to track Hassan down and confront him about his decisions. Arriving at the ball, Andrea is shocked: under the wing of his adoptive gay mother, Paris Continental, Hassan has assumed the identity of Hanna. Andrea has a choice: deny her own son or accept her child for who she really is.

Night Shift

SHORT NARRATIVE

United States, 2017, 16 min.

Philadelphia Premiere

Dir. Marshall Tyler

Get a glimpse into a day in the life of a bathroom attendant in a Los Angeles nightclub.